USSSY - uSSSy
(CD, r.a.i.g.)
There is not enough decent
noise rock in this world, I used to say the last years, but it is not true
anymore. There seems to be more and more good and crazy noise mongers with
drums and guitars and the will to scream anything down that stands in their
way. Most of those (Don Vito, Peach Pit, Dyse, Beta Satan, Gnaw, Todd, Monno, to name the first few that come to my
mind) are very diverse in style – and that is good on top. USSSY is
another great piece of noise rock with intentions to fuck up all kinds of
genres that come along with it. Their first album has an hour of ranting,
rocking, raving, exploding, bass heavy, stupid noise rock on it. The last
song is a long droning freak out, which may tell you something about what
these guys do and peruse when it is time to chill, but other than that it is
a hell of a ride. The first song on here starts with guitar feedback and
then a heavy drum hitting all beats of a fast 4/4 as the tuned down guitar
sets in. That should tell you all about what these guys do and peruse when
they go to work.
USSSY – at the time of
recording this album one should add - consists of Pavel Eremeev (bassy
guitar and voice), Artem Galkin (guitar) and Sergei Ledovski (drums), who
are three quarters of the legendary math core band from I am above on the
left from Moscow. You also should know Galkin from another project he
started after I am above… split up and which also released on RAIG: the
feedback orgy ceremony masters and chaos structure songwriters Kruzr Ken. In
comparison to them USSSY seems tame, but that is taking relativity a bit too
far. If that is possible.
To describe this in detail:
Usssy like to speed up things without making speed the only thing that
matters. Because sometimes speed takes out the punch, and that is lame.
Usssy like to hit hard and they use a heavily downtuned bass, drums and all
kinds of chaos to reach that. In some ways they are quite disciplined and
apart from the drone freak out at the end there are definite structures to
the songs. But within these confines they let it run wild with feedback,
screams and chaos. Anarchy and discipline is what it seems to boil down to.
Not a bad concept at all, if you are able to make it work. Another feature
that marks almost all songs is wailing in all kinds and forms. Be it vocals
that scream like a crazy banshee and which has several counterparts in
underground metal, or guitar feedback that thrones over the rhythm section
in a long winding bow, or just some random noise that wails through the song
like a fucking cold winter storm, there is always some kind of long winded,
sirene thing going on somewhere. This doesn’t corrupt the high energetic
pulse held throughout.
